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Gábor Ágoston: Military Transformation in the Ottoman Empire and Russia, 1500–1800. In: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 12. Jahrgang, Nr.2, 2011, S.281–319 [294], doi:10.1353/kri.2011.0018 (researchgate.net): „Initially the Janissaries were equipped with bows, crossbows, and javelins. In the first half of the 15th century, they began to use matchlock arquebuses, although the first references to the Ottomans' use of tüfek or hand firearms of the arquebus type (1394, 1402, 1421, 1430, 1440, 1442) are disputable.“
